A man saw an optometrist after getting something stuck in his eye, and was told a deer tick had taken up residence in his cornea. The creature made a 'little popping sound' as it was pulled out with tweezers, he said.
Kentucky electrical worker Chris Prater douses himself in insect repellent every day to beat the bugs he encounters on the job.
But all his spraying couldn't spare him from a pernicious tick that found in the one spot he couldn't swat — his eyeball. "You can't spray your eyes," he told CNN affiliate WYMT.The teeny parasite fought its way into Prater's eye some time during a July tree-cutting job in Johnson County, he explained.Prater didn't originally think anything of the irritation before the diagnosis.
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